We participated in one of the world’s leading climate events, reaffirming that protecting nature means protecting life.
At a time when carbon markets, sustainable finance, and climate action are at a defining crossroads, Climate Week NYC 2025 stood out as a global platform to accelerate the implementation of real solutions.
With more than a thousand events, this edition placed special emphasis on market integrity, mobilizing capital for nature, and the urgent need to move from commitment to action.
In this context, REDD+ Matavén took part actively, sharing its experience as one of the world’s largest Indigenous-led REDD+ projects. These dialogues reaffirmed our commitment to contribute Matavén’s perspective to the global climate conversation, showing that Indigenous-led conservation models are an effective and fair path toward long-term climate and social results.
The importance of these spaces
Climate Week NYC brings together governments, companies, civil society organizations, scientists, and financial actors to share lessons, build partnerships, and drive climate solutions.
Throughout the week, we joined panels, meetings, and exchanges with diverse sectors. It was a space full of energy, ideas, and people who recognize the urgency to act. Different languages and perspectives: finance, technology, nature, design; but one shared conviction: the time to act is now.
In this setting, one message was clear: nature-based solutions are not a luxury; they are essential. Science continues to demonstrate their role in carbon storage, biodiversity protection, water regulation, and sustaining livelihoods. Without them, global climate goals will remain out of reach.
Key takeaways from Climate Week NYC 2025
Some of the most relevant insights that directly connect with the work of REDD+ Matavén include:
- Mobilizing capital for nature: the need to scale up public and private investment in nature-based solutions remains urgent and unmet.
- Integrity and quality in carbon markets: credibility depends on transparency, robust standards, and the active participation of local communities.
- Technology serving nature: artificial intelligence, data, and digital platforms can strengthen ecosystem monitoring and verification but should never replace their essence or the human role that protects them.
- Multisector collaboration: climate, biodiversity, finance, justice, and public policy must be addressed together. Isolated solutions are not enough.
These messages echo what REDD+ Matavén has practiced for more than a decade: building a conservation model grounded in integrity, where technology complements ancestral knowledge and where the benefits of climate action directly reach the Indigenous communities who safeguard the forest.
Our vision from Matavén
For 13 years, Indigenous leadership has guided the path of REDD+ Matavén through an evolving landscape that continues to prove a simple truth: when forests are protected with integrity, the benefits go far beyond carbon. They strengthen communities, resilience, and the future.
Participating in Climate Week NYC 2025 was an opportunity to reconnect with a global dialogue that shares the same conviction: protecting nature is protecting life. From Matavén, we will continue building partnerships that strengthen climate action from the territories, advancing a future where forest conservation and community well-being move forward together.
The path is challenging, but the direction is clear. Our compass remains the same: Indigenous leadership, transparency, and integrity in service of nature and life.